The prospect of flash drives wearing out is a non-issue, according to NetApp.
Mark Welke, NetApp’s senior director of product marketing, said the company has not had a single solid-state drive (SSD) wear...

The fourth quarter of 2014 was tough for solid-state storage vendor SanDisk. Still, the vendor said its enterprise solid-state drive (SSD) sales increased and it remains on track for $1 billion in enterprise SSD revenue in 2015.
SanDisk warned earlier this month that it would miss its revenue...

Brocade executives have talked a lot about flash as a disruptive technology that’s driving 16 Gbps Fibre Channel (FC) storage networking. As the year draws to a close, rival Cisco said most customers now buy 16 Gbps FC switches when they deploy new enterprise-class flash storage.
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DataGravity picked up $50 million in funding today, two months after coming out of stealth with systems built for storage admins and data scientists.
The vendor – founded by EqualLogic veterans Paula Long and John Joseph – now has amassed $92 million over three funding rounds.
CEO Long...

All storage systems have a controller, which is a device with a processor that sends instructions to the disks. Storage controllers differ from vendor to vendor, but generally fit into three types -- custom designed, purpose-built, and commodity server-based.
Each type of implementation has...